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If you're driven by the passion to do something meaningful that changes lives, Nestlé is the place for you. Nestlé USA is one of seven operating companies that make up Nestlé’s presence in the United States. We're in 97% of American homes, and as the leading food and beverage company, our goals are to continue to deliver quality food and beverage products, strengthen our local communities, and reduce our environmental and climate impact.

We’re determined to challenge the status quo and be better tomorrow than we are today. As individuals and teams, we embrace our entrepreneurial culture and have created a workplace where collaboration is essential, courage is rewarded, speed is expected, and agility is the norm to delight our consumers every single day. Here, you will find limitless opportunities to learn and advance your career and feel empowered to succeed in the workplace and beyond. Because our focus is not only on nourishing our customers, but also about enriching you.

This position is not eligible for Visa Sponsorship.

This role enables Nestlé Sales Organization (NSO) to be seen as the best consumer packaged goods company in the U.S. and deliver on our priorities and strategies, this role will develop and implement strategic internal and customer-facing programs and events that demonstrate consumer obsession, innovative thinking, and value in the industry. This role will also support the Strategic Planning initiatives of the broader team, understanding our priorities and goals, how to track against them, and how to bring them to life through employee experiences, carefully curated content and messaging internally and externally (customers), and delivery to a sales audience through large scale events, to more scaled down engagements.

Qualifications :

• Develop and implement comprehensive event strategies aligned with the organization's broader strategic goals, ensuring that all planned events contribute to the overall vision.

• Provide strategic event guidance for market-wide operating companies such as NHSc, Nespresso, Professional Solutions and market-wide functions such as Marketing, Finance, and Sales, as needed.

• Lead all NSO Planning Events – Extended Leadership Team Meetings, ICP meetings, Industry events (FMI Mid-Winter annual conference, WAFC, Cornell University Food Executive Program), bi-annual National Sales Meeting, as well as explore what events or engagements (internal or external) would be an ideal platform to showcase our portfolio and capabilities. The list of events is not exhaustive and subject to adjustment.

• Collaborate with senior leadership and key stakeholders to define the specific objectives, themes, and desired outcomes for each event, ensuring they are in line with the strategic vision.

• Create detailed event plans, including timelines, budgets, resource allocation, and contingency plans, to ensure smooth execution and successful outcomes.

• Liaison to current contracted agencies that are responsible for coordination and management of events.

• Single point of contact for all sales-owned, branded assets for customer-facing events such as, but not limited, to food shows, expos, or top-2-tops.

• Liaison to culinary innovation team to ensure our products play a significant role in planning and content and provide backup support for the procurement of sample products.

• Flex into projects across Strategic Planning team where additional support is needed on larger initiatives such as ICP.

• Provide backup support for team meetings of larger scale (more than 15), SLT offsites, or other Operating Company executive-led conferences (as needed)

• Provide secondary on-site logistics support for L+D (as needed)

• Responsible for supporting the creation and utilization of templates or trackers based on current business needs.

• Manage meeting calendar, agenda, and flow of show for any significant function.

• Create scalable presentations and tools through the sales organization to enable successful outcomes of events.

• Monitor and evaluate event performance, collecting feedback and data to measure success against predetermined goals and identify areas for improvement.

Skills :

• Professional maturity and the ability to engage with leadership.

• Desire to learn, be challenged, and be able to “decide and go”.

• Excellent people skills, ability to negotiate with ease and concrete examples of experience and execution of meetings of varying scale.

• Strong Organizational skills

• Creative; proficient in PowerPoint, template building, theme development

• Takes Initiative even in the face of a challenge

• Network-building expertise is encouraged

• Ability to set and track against realistic budgets.

• Ability to paint the big picture and deconstruct to establish clear workstreams and owners.

• Influence and enable results through others without formal authority.

• Adaptability – agility to pivot and strategize in new ways to break through barriers.

Preferred experience:

5 years of proven history, ability to share samples of the following from ideation to execution: internal meetings, customer-facing meetings, national conferences, or executive engagements. Preference is to have proven success in planning for a large CPG company. Preference is to have a strong understanding of Nestlé USA.

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It is our business imperative to remain a very inclusive workplace.

To our veterans and separated service members, you're at the forefront of our minds as we recruit top talent to join Nestlé. The skills you've gained while serving our country, such as flexibility, agility, and leadership, are much like the skills that will make you successful in this role. In addition, with our commitment to an inclusive work environment, we recognize the exceptional engagement and innovation displayed by individuals with disabilities. Nestlé seeks such skilled and qualified individuals to share our mission where you’ll join a cohort of others who have chosen to call Nestlé home.

The Nestlé Companies are an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer* seeking diversity in qualified applicants for employment. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, gender, gender identity, age, religion, national origin, ancestry, disability, perceived disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other protected status, as defined by applicable law. Prior to the next step in the recruiting process, we welcome you to inform us confidentially if you may require any special accommodations in order to participate fully in our recruitment experience. Contact us at accommodations@nestle.com or please dial 711 and provide this number to the operator: 1-800-321-6467

*Note: Nespresso is not a federal contractor and does not maintain affirmative action programs

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